It looks okay at a glance but other factors (that I'll bring up later) make me hold off on saying that it's good. I'm also bothered by the lack of concrete numbers for the amount of credits we get for dusting excess Full-Arts, Trainer Gallery cards, Rainbow Rares, Alt-Arts, Secret Rares, SV cards, and prerelease promos. The table also doesn't take Reverse/alternate Holos into account and that's even more worrying.
I find this hard to believe (and, like the above issue, I'll mention why later) and I also find that TPCi making an extremely-exclusive card like Tropical Beach accessable to everyone laughable. But in fairness I'll wait until BLW-era cards become available in the PTCGL to actually guffaw.
Eh, I don't have that much of an issue with this since the PTCGO is in the same straights when it comes to getting currency.
And there it is, there's the zarking rub. I expected TPCi to do something stupid with this transition but never expected it be like this. Way to shoot yourselves in the foot, TPCi! Unless this is actually a way to blatantly lie in a press release and bring IAPs into the game at a later date of course.
This is a TPCi-funded venture, cutting down on effort and penny-pinching is to be expected at this point.
I have a feeling that the PTCGL was made for phones first and TPCi realized that they'll need to make a desktop version just to keep a certain set of players in the game.
Well they wont stay in the live game as well. Basically I say open them and get the 10 cards now. And that way when you transfer you will have more cards to credit towards.
Pretty sure that’s just Table Top Sim. Problem is, tournaments on Limitless or official online tournaments will take place in the client. Which will suck when people realize that these “mobile game” models are designed to maximize money from whales, at the cost of losing money from normal players.
This is always the most hilarious excuse for making garbage. Games like Hearthstone are also for-profit (to a fault), but they are also objectively fun and artistic, with creative visuals, sound design, aesthetic, and clever UIs. This client is a soulless mobile cash grab, ZERO effort went in to making it a good product in itself.
The 400 limit is beyond stupid. I've opened 2 cases of sets before and you definitely do not get playsets of every card you need. Considering you can't manually convert cards into credits/dust/whatever either, it's a huge screw-up on Pokemon's end honestly. Went from wanting to go all in on this game to...probably not even wanting to give it my time of day.
I'm not talking about the UI. That is bad. I'm talking more about the fact that people seem upset that you have to grind to be completely F2P.
Well, the obvious question is: what’s an acceptable balance? I’m skeptical of F2P models because I believe they’re designed to get you to functionally spend more money than you should have to on digital, aka non-existent, products (which can be taken away at anytime by the company, leaving you with nothing, unlike physical product). This is leaving aside the ethics of physical trading cards, which I’m also skeptical about. I will also say, the way Pokemon approaches “being for-profit” is concretely demonstrated by the UI; the UI is the way it is BECAUSE of the way Pokémon approaches profit. It gets complex to say specifically how things should be (are we getting “ripped off”? What does it mean to get ripped off in this context?), but it’s simple to point out the areas that are clearly lacking and problematic.
I haven't played PTCGO much in the past 2 years because of how expensive trading gets, so I'm not sure I agree there. Also, you're just assuming it'll be worse in the long run less than 24 hours in. The trade system is definitely better on the low-end, but on the high-end you can start out with enough credit for 10 meta-decks for less than the cost of one Mew VMAX deck
PTCGO wasn’t perfect, and I have a lot of criticisms of it. Trading didn’t make it somehow a good system by itself; I’m just saying that it was mechanically not a part of the “mobile model.” If you couldn’t afford to play PTCGO, it’s likely you will feel more welcome by Live but the drop off will be harder. There’s a compromise that could lead to a great game in there; we won’t ever see it though.
All of those other mobile games have direct monetization. That alone makes this a different model. I understand being cautious, but some of you are just angry that we didn't just get PTCGO with Master Duel graphics.
We could have a perfect fan made alternative but it wouldn’t matter so long as limitless and the official company don’t use it for tournaments. I say that because we already have had alternatives in the past, like TCGOne and tabletop sim. They take a lot of effort to make and they aren’t easy to use but people are incentivized not to use them regardless because of this. Just saying.
TPCi never used PTCGO for official tournaments before the pandemic either.
We're talking about obtaining cards. Again, I agree that the UI is bad and they should have done better (though I don't necessarily want such a flashy app for the sake of it). Please read the conversation before replying.
And I'm talking about that too, maybe read my previous posts before dismissing them. There's a delicate balance between profit and unbalanced resource drip that forces players to buy resources. This is something problematic given that some social media personalities are praising the app for "not having microtransactions" when those microtransactions are sometimes the only way players around the world are able to get resources for their accounts - not everyone has stores with codes available near them. Old PTCGO was already bad regarding the slow drip of resources, but the trading aspect significantly sped up player progress because decks were significantly cheaper than the value that they currently have in TCG Live. The number of resources you have to invest to get a meta deck are outrageous with how many little resources they are giving you. Microtransactions are not the devil as long as they're properly priced and allow players to reduce the time spent farming and getting resources instead of actually playing the game.